ProfessorLesser wrote:
All this talk of hacking and froyo (whatever that is) and stuff... what am I actually going to have to do to my Desire to get it in decent working order?

nothing. its in perfect working order straight from the box. i just prefer stock android so I rooted it and flashed a stock rom. This is nothing you need to worry about and was purely for my own taste. a quick google will show you the difference between stock and sense interface. lots of people like sense.

what I find nuts is in the US, the G2 was released with stock android and people are flashing the desires sense rom on it. Over here, its other way around. Grass is greener and all that ...

froyo is the friendly name given to the android versions. We've had cupcake, donut, eclair, froyo (frozen yoghurt). the next is gingerbread and the one scheduled after that is honeycomb. See a trend ?

Kosmoz wrote:
What about downloading apps and such? Does the size of the app downloaded come off the amout? Like if I download a 20mb app i will have 730mb left to use?

If you download it on your 3G connection then yes.

If your on a WiFi connection then it won't impact your allowance...

as Whatsfor said. There is an app on the market called 3g watchdog that just sits in your notification tray counting your data usage. A quick swipe down and you can see what you've used. Set it up on your billing cycle and it will reset each month.

Couple it with the apndroid app and it will actually disable your internet when you hit a predfined limit to prevent you getting billed for going over your bundle allowance.

Kosmoz wrote:
What about downloading apps and such? Does the size of the app downloaded come off the amout? Like if I download a 20mb app i will have 730mb left to use?

If you download it on your 3G connection then yes.

If your on a WiFi connection then it won't impact your allowance...

as Whatsfor said. There is an app on the market called 3g watchdog that just sits in your notification tray counting your data usage. A quick swipe down and you can see what you've used. Set it up on your billing cycle and it will reset each month.

Couple it with the apndroid app and it will actually disable your internet when you hit a predfined limit to prevent you getting billed for going over your bundle allowance.

Just thought I'd add a bit for anyone using a Samsung Galaxy S. I'm on T-Mobile so at long last got the 2.2 froyo update yesterday (Flash online/Save to SD card being the main updates). However, the 'lag' on the phone was still really annoying - Scrolling between screens and opening apps was taking an age (10-15 secs).
Anyway, just installed Z4Root (XDA forums - Not marketplace), which 'roots' phone with 1 click - No need to copy tonnes of files on/off phone. Then applied 'Voodoo One Click Lag Fix' from Marketplace - Now have an awesome phone which responds when I want it to!

it really doesn't need. It shows as a drive and will work with pretty much any media synching software (windows media player, winamp etc) If they don't float your boat, then just copy and paste music into a folder on the drive and android will find it.

Any of the newer HTC devices run Sense as standard.
The Desire HD is actually running a slightly more enhanced version of the software with some nifty little built in anti theft and remote deactivation stuff.